---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to advancing contraceptive coverage and economic security in our state"
description: "An Act relative to advancing contraceptive coverage and economic security in our state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4009"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4009 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Financial Services"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-06"
last_action: "2017-11-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8eeb5d5e-f234-490c-b38d-2b5ccf84119e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4009"
source_hash: "29996c7af53ccc95954f41408ebf599f2437e9b141c2bebc7783e4bb77a153c0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 4009 (190th) — An Act relative to advancing contraceptive coverage and economic security in our state

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4009.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Financial Services — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-11-06** Reported from the committee on Financial Services
- **2017-11-06** New draft of H536
- **2017-11-06** Reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-07** Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-08** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-08** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-08** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-08** Read third `reading-3`
- **2017-11-08** Passed to be engrossed - 140 YEAS to 16 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 279) `passage`
- **2017-11-09** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-13** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2210 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-13** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-13** Read second `reading-2`
- **2017-11-13** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2210 `amendment-passage`
- **2017-11-13** Ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-14** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-14** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-11-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-11-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 120 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8eeb5d5e-f234-490c-b38d-2b5ccf84119e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).